somatology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: so=ma=tol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

somatology, n. [Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + -logy.].

•  The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.  [1913 Webster]
•  A treatise on the human body; anatomy.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
•  The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

somatology, n. the science of living bodies physically considered.

ROGET THESAURUS

somatology

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.